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Slay those hands at once, felling every man who approached him. whom you believe have wronged you, and I will not stay} “Shoot him down—shoot him down!” yelled Champe, your hand or speak one word for mercy. But this wretch and he aimed his own revolver full at the head of the belongs to me.” | brave man. : Joaquin looked at him reproachfully, but as he released| <A bullet shattered it the next second, and his pistol, | his hand he replaced his knife in its sheath. exploding as it fell, dropped at his feet, while his own yell “J will not hurt him—but those other two—they must of agony rung through the air. be found,” said he. ‘“ Will you come and help me to find| It was Carroll who fired—it was Carroll now who thrust- them ?” < ing Joe back shouted to the others: “Yes! the cowards shall yield up their secret or their; “ Cowardly dogs, fire on one you cannot harm! Strike lives,” said Carroll. “We will go out and look for them.” | for a breast you cannot pierce !” | “Be jabers they’re bakin’ in at the door like they’d seen| Bellows, Gilroy, and a dozen sturdy miners were beside ghosts outside,” said Dennis O’Grady. Carroll in another minute, but Wrestling Joe was not one Sure enough, the two gamblers were seen, as they stag-|to shield himself behind those who would aid him. He gered in at the front of the Casino, with an appearance of ; sprang forward among the thickest of the gamblers that intense fright visible on their faces. 8 ‘pressed toward him, his cudgel falling heavy and fast, Joaquin, drawing his breath hard and nerving himself but a flashing knife was seen descending upon him, and fora death-struggle, again snatched his knife from its his cudgel dropped from a wounded arm. scabbard and with a still, rapid step moved toward them.| It wasa fearful moment, for the ruffians Hill and Noyes The next second, entering the door, with hair hanging | now rushed to the front, each uttering a shrill cry of in disheveled masses over shoulders laid bare by torn | encouragement to Champe who was falling back. garments, her great eyes wild with agony and despair, her; Wild, more wild than the cry of a maddened panther white neck scratched and bleeding as if beasts had clawed ;now rose a yell upon the air, and both the last-named into it, a female staggered forward. gamblers saw Joaquin rise like an avenging demon from So changed—could it be the same—could it be the young, | the dead body of his wife. He rose with the knife-hlade lovely, loving wife whom Joaquin Muriata had brought| which was reeking from her veins and dashed madly at thither that day ? these men—singling these only out from all the rest. it was, and Joaquin, even as quickly as the two cower-| “Diablos! Diablos!” Ke shouted, as he struck fiercely ing wretches who fled back from her approaching presence, | right and left, literally cleaving his way toward them as recoguized her: they turned to escape him. “Diablos!” he shouted again, ‘‘Maraquita—my Maraquita !” he cried, and he extended | and they could fly no further, for they had turned toward his open arms, as he hurried toward her. the wall instead of the door in their haste. ; “Back! back! Touch me not, Amor Mio!” she cried,| “Por mi esposa Muerte !—for my dead wife!” he shouted and she waved her white hands, scratched and torn like again, and this time he reached the foremost of the two her beautiful neck, ‘‘back, I am lost—I am lost !” and half-severed the arm thrown out in guard. He did not heed her cry—he did not wait to hear from| He spoke no more—he had both gamblers cornered, and her pale lips one word, he rushed forward and would | they fought for dear life. It was a mad, wild fight, but have clasped her to his breast, but she with her left hand {over almost as soon as commenced, for heedless of two forcibly pushed him from her, while with her right hand | terrible blows from them, he rushed in and drove his knife she took his knife from his nerveless grasp. to the hilt first into the heart of one, then into the heart “Back—till you hear me,” she cried again. of the other. : Then in his own tongue, with a wild despairing tone,| “ Vengeance! Vengeance !” he yelled, as hey fell dead, she spoke a few hurried words, which seemed to freeze his|and he turned to mingle again in the strife. very soul. 2 It was a strife no longer. The gamblers mere falling He stood, his great eyes regarding her with a look of | ack, he saw Champe on the floor, with Pepito; the dwarf, freezing horror, while she raised the glittering blade | jumping like a demon on-his breast, he saw Edward Car- above her head, her eyes uplifted as if she sought to see roll bearing Wrestling Joe off in his arms as if he was @ the face of an avenging spirit. helpless child, Gilroy, Bellows, and twenty or more miners “Hold—hold her hand! Do not let her kill herself.” were sweeping the gamblers inacrowd from the hal]— The ery, in a voice which was recognized by twenty|then his eyes fell on poor dead Maraquita, his wronged, present, came from the lips of the supposed Irishman, | dead wife. : and Henry Champe, forgetting all else in his hate,| He bent over her body, he raised it in his arms, he ran shouted : with it from the place accursed where she had perished, be — “Wrestling Joe is here! Fifty thousand dollars for his | knew not, cared not whither. He rushed out, and the cold head !” rain fell on his bare, hot head, the wild wind whistled He drew his own revolver as he uttered the shout, and around his form, and he ran on—on, until he heard the — knives and pistols were seen flashing all around at the | roar of the rushing river close before him. f same instant. F Panting and breathless, he paused, for he heard the ? sound of rushing footatens: ah behind him. “Cowards, come on!” he shouted, in his own tongue. CHAPTER XVI. “ Joaquin Muriata lives but to slay.” AN EVENTFUL NIGHT. “We are friends!” cried one in Spanish. Even while the wild warning cry rang from the lips of}, It was the dwarf who spoke. | 5 fies Wrestling Joe, who in his excitement forgot all caution,| “Yes, we are friends. ItisI, Don Eduardo, who tell == the knife held only for an instant, high over the head of) you So. I am carrying a man who is stunned and sense- Maraquita, fell, driven with all the force of her arm into less to his boat, which must be near,” said Carroll, Gaia. her own breast. “Tt is here—it is here. Oh, if he is not killed bring poor “Andcwhile knives were flashing over her falling form—|Joe to me ” cried Maggie, from the river-side. “Ihave -— while with a low moan of misery, unheeding all that was waited all this long, long night.” Sein going on around him, Joaquin bent over her and threw There was only a moment of delay, and the light of @ his arms about her, she murmured : lantern, one of the bull’s-eve kind, used by the police, “Tt is best, dear love. I could not live and look you in shone out. It was carried by the dwarf, and it revealed = = the face. God guard thee, love.” ‘the form of Edward Carroll, supporting the inanimate = = ~~ She smiled, and died, while he, speechless, in his deep, body of Wrestling Joe, who had lost his false hairand = — | deep agony, bowed his head upon her bleeding bosom and beard in the late combat, and-now appeared deathly pale, =e 88 wept—oh, how bitterly. for he had lost blood from several wounds. “itso naa Wept while twenty men sprang forward to earnthe! “Is he mortally hurt?” cried Maggie, as she bent over — ia - peward offered by Henry Champe; wept while the gam- the body which Carroll laid gently in the boat. ae bler and others rushed over her body and his to attack! ‘‘No—no. A blow from the butt of a pistol in the hands ’ the undaunted wrestler, who with his short stick in his of one of the gamblers struck him under the ear and he is * st = - ol-r-) , © = > 7 . Pia ven teva ren “4 ’ cs ‘ : “ . 4 — ‘oZ ~ “ 3 - Ts * ie on “a So = ay etm “or *, a - > : “ * Pi » " . a ae +S os & — : =* . 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